I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.

You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed.

What I do for a living and how I unwind are one and the same; it's a rare special thing.

Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.

I'd say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to change and tailor what you're doing to what the situation dictates.

For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.

I am a proud Montrealer. Jobs will take me where they take me, but nothing will ever be able to convince me to leave my home.

In the best-case scenario, the audience sees themselves in your shoes. The only way you can do that is if you try to play it as if it was happening to you.

Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.

My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.

Why don't I just give you a pair of my panties to hang around your neck? Then whenever you feel jealous, you can wave them at whoever's pissing you off.

If a person has no conscience, it's called being a sociopath. If a corporation has no conscience, it's called capitalism.

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television.

Every character actor, in their own little sphere, is the lead.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

I argue with myself, get mad at myself, throw myself around the room and then apologize to myself.

Kensington Market is a must visit place in Toronto.

Let's stop the startwatch.

Today's teardrops are tomorrow's rainbows.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.